The Fortunate Ruyi Chair 椅子 by Tzu Wei Lin

The Fortunate Ruyi Chair 椅子 by Tzu Wei Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 家具设计 Competition Category.

铜家具· 2023

The Fortunate Ruyi Chair 椅子

by Tzu Wei Lin

Client: Xudong Interior Decoration Design Co., Ltd.

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 家具 Category

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The Design

About The Fortunate Ruyi Chair 椅子

"如意吉祥椅"是一款以中国传统吉祥符号"如意"纹样为灵感的座椅。设计以经典椅型作为结构基础，并融入简化后的如意纹样。该纹样经复制、翻转，再叠合融汇，形成弧形的座面与椅腿。不规则的曲线、内凹的弧度与外扬的尖端，营造出流动之感与不对称的平衡美。椅子尺寸为宽500毫米、深600毫米、高500毫米。传统文化与现代美学在此交融共生。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

The Fortunate Ruyi Chair 椅子是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计The Fortunate Ruyi Chair 椅子将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。The Fortunate Ruyi Chair 椅子出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Therefore, this design is nothing like what the designer has done before, it starts with the pattern of the Ruyi pattern, and the designer has spent much time researching the concepts and styles of multiple chairs. Little by little, The Fortunate Ruyi Chair concept has transformed into a clearer picture. It is an art piece combined with various layers of materials, the beauty of craftsmanship, the richness of cultural heritage, and the amazingness of the designer ingenuity.
Dimensions & Packaging: The furniture piece is Width 500 mmm x Depth 600mm x Height 500mm.
Tags: Furniture, Design, Chair, Ruyi, Fortunate
Production Technology: For this project, the designer has set the classic chair style shape as the structural basis and combined it with the simplified Ruyi pattern. Then, by duplicating and flipping the pattern, the pattern is overlapped and fused to form a curved seat and legs, perfectly blending traditional culture with modern aesthetics.
Design Challenge: For this project, the designer has analyzed the Ruyi pattern, extracted its connotation, and applied it to the product form so that the product is aesthetically, culturally, and functionally enjoyable. In this way, users will understand the underlying cultural spirit of the chair through their experiences with the product. Moreover, this product interprets the spirit of traditional culture unconventionally, changing our perception of traditional culture yet retaining its cultural connotation and, most importantly, paying tribute to ancestry wisdom. In summary, it is an art piece that is awe-inspiring, thought provoking and mind blowing.
Research: Vladimir Kagan, the noted German American furniture designer, believes that designing a chair is like creating a container for an individual. Therefore, the function, shape, and meaning of the chair are highly associated with the user and the environment. This project is a clever application of one of the historical motifs of Chinese culture, Ruyi, to a modern product design. From 3D natural objects to 2D patterns and then applying them to 3D products, the designer has simplified the lines and colors to create a work that is aesthetically modern and attractive.
Inspiration: Ruyi has served as a unique cultural symbol in Chinese culture and has an underlying meaning of great fortune. The designer has set Ruyi as the primary inspiration for the chair design because, during the designer experiences in the field of interior design over the years, each design project must be executed based on the client preferences and many other contributing factors.
Project Duration: The project was completed in August 2021 in Taipei Taiwan.
Operation Flow: Other than that, the lines of the seat are extended by the Ruyi pattern by the use of the irregular curved lines, unique angles of the inner curves, and the outer corners of the tips to produce a rich and dynamic rhythm of the chair, delivering a sense of flow and producing an asymmetrical balance.
Image Credits: Lin Tzu Wei, 2022